Update 2 the state of drm-next-4.6 and next steps

[William A. Mahaffey III]

I notice references to amdgpu & amdkfd, will this upgrade bring support 
for at least some AMD-based gfx systems (jaguar, kaveri, richland, etc.) 
? Keep up the good work :-) !!!!


On 05/11/16 04:35, Matthew Macy wrote:
>
> At least to some degree hw accelerated 3d works on the 4.6 i915 driver (which in principle supports up through Kaby lake - I don't yet have anything newer than Haswell).
>
> https://plus.google.com/114029301710423058970/posts/485LyZegC9B
>
> I anticipate maintaining all the pieces: linuxkpi, drm, i915, amdgpu, amdkfd as ports for the foreseeable future to make maintenance and continued development simpler.
>
> I hope to post a call for testers this weekend or early next week.
>
> Cheers.
>
> -M
>
>
>   ---- On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 13:18:14 -0700 Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> wrote ----
>   >
>   >
>   >
>   >  ---- On Tue, 12 Apr 2016 12:57:34 -0700 Matthew Macy <mmacy at nextbsd.org> wrote ----
>   >  > There seems to be some confusion about the state of drm-next-3.9. All the work is currently going on in jmd's fork of freebsd-base-graphics:
>   >  >
>   >  > https://github.com/iotamudelta/freebsd-base-graphics
>   >  >
>   >  > The emphasis has been on bringing i915 and the drm code  in dev/drm2 closer to upstream as opposed to a simple driver refresh. I'm currently implementing missing linuxkpi bits and hope to actually be testing in the next week or so.
>   >  >
>   >  > As of this moment there is nothing available for general consumption. I very much hope to have this phase done before code freeze. I will update the list as soon as there is anything to test. Until then, hold your horses.
>   >  >
>   >
>   > X now runs i915kms accelerated on the 3.9 driver update. Currently *only* SNA works.
>   > Known issues:
>   >   -  UXA will fail with: "(EE) failed to create screen resources(EE)".
>   >        If someone has pointer on how to diagnose other than the usual trawling
>   >       through Xorg sources let me know.
>   >   - The module currently leaks memory on unload.
>   >
>   >
>   > My general feeling is that unless you have one of the half-dozen Haswell PCIIDS that aren't support by 3.8 it probably isn't worth testing yet. I'm only sending this out to let users track its progress.
>   >
>   >
>   > Cheers.
>   > -M
>
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